Skate.



G. W. QUIN & M. BLMASSEY.

WITNESSES:

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SKATE. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 8, I908 Patented Dec. 15,1908

IN VEN TORS,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. QUIN AND MILTON E..MASSEY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

SKATE Patented Dec. 15, 1908.

Serial No. 414,934.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES W. QUIN and MILTON E. MASSEY, citizens of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skates, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a art hereof.

Our invention has re ation to improvements in skates; and it consists in the novel details of construction more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of an ice-skate with one form of our roller attachment secured thereto; and Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical Section on line 22 of Fig. 1.

The'object of our invention is to construct a skate serviceable either for ice-skating or roller-skating according to the character of runner with which it may be temporarily equipped.

The invention contemplates the conversion of an ice-skate into a roller-skate or vice versa by the simple attachment to, or removal of the roller-axles or trucks from, the ice-runner as will be more fully apparent from a detailed description of the invention which is as follows:

Referring to the drawings, I, represents the foot-plate or supporting latform of the skate, H, the heel-guard and the runner or blade adapted to operate on an icy surface. These features are common to all ice-Skates and no particular stress is laid thereon as they may be of any conventional form or design. In our roller attachment we employ two hinged truck sections a (1 whose outer ends terminate in cylindrical axles or bearings b b for the support of the wheels or rollers r, r. Forming integral parts of the truck-sections a a, and dis osed adjacent to the hinge-pin h and extending at ri ht an les to the axes of the axle bearings 11 are ormations or wings w, which, when the sections are swung to bring the axle bearings into parallelism form a socket for the reception of the runner R (Fig. 2), the wings w closing against the opposite faces of the runner to which the wings are subsequently secured by a bolt n passed through registering o enings formed in the wings and the body of t e runner respectively. Thus the hinged sections a a with the wheels 1' 1" form roller-trucks which may temporarily be secured to the blade or runner of the ice-skate, thus temporarily converting the latter into a roller skate. Both front and rear trucks are the ianip so that a description of one sufiices for Having described our invention, what we claim is:

In combination with a skate having an ice-runner or blade, a roller-supporting truck disposed at either end of the runner, the truck being composed of two hinged sections having formations for engaging the opposite faces of the runner, means for securing said formations to the runner, the truck being rovided with axle extensions for the mounting of suitable rollers, the peripheries of the rollers being disposed slightly beyond the edge of the runner whereby the skate may temporarily serve as a roller-skate, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures, in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES W. QUIN. MILTON E. MASSEY. Witnesses:

EMIL STAREK, Jos. A. MICHEL. 

